Meet Sami

Sami McKay (she/her) is a mixed media artist and writer based in Toronto, Ontario.

Her work is deeply symbolic and leans on themes of curiosity and exploration, (dis)connection, and navigating the human experience.

Fixated on the abstract and strangeness of our existence, Sami looks to share the paradoxical, existential, and confusing aspects of life, death and coping with the conditions of being.

She aims to display through art and writing, the rawness, complexity and beauty of our existence

Essays

honey, i shrunk the world
honey, i shrunk the world

One of the first essays I ever posted was about...

bliss way, that way
bliss way, that way

A large part of listening to life is recognizing when...

what's buggin' you?
what's buggin' you?

Let me set the scene. It’s an incredibly rainy day,...